Peruvian elections or how to change history for ever
The Peruvian elections have produced an unexpected result. Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori will face each other in the run-off. Anything could happen in an unusual electoral process.
Monsanto pushes GM maize
The biotech giant, Monsanto, is taking advantage of the havoc caused by bad weather in Mexico to push its GM maize (corn).
Belo Monte: The dialogue that never happened
Bishop Erwin Kräutler, the president of CIMI (Indigenous Missionary Council) in Brazil, has published an "open letter" in which he attacks the government's decision to push ahead with the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Amazon basin.
Colombia: Las Pavas: Farmers demand right of return to lands
On 4 April 2011, more than 70 adults returned to the Las Pavas ranch (Department of Bolívar), from which they were displaced in July 2009, following various returns and subsequent forced displacements.
The path for Venezuela can not be neoliberalism or Stalinism
Eduardo Lander, a distinguisled Venezuelan academic, argues that the Venezuelan revolution must have its own identity.
50 years of the Bay of Pigs: Cubans and the CIA...
Fifty years ago, an invasion of Cuba, sponsored by the CIA, failed and moved the island towards a socialist system.
Lula’s Brazil
This essay, written by the influential British Marxist historian Perry Anderson and published by the London Review of Books, first summarises Lula's achievements in his two terms of government and then looks at the radically different
Amazon: NASA scientists detect extensive drought damage
Satellite images have revealed that last year's drought, the most severe ever recorded, did more extensive and more lasting damage to the Amazon forest than had been expected, say NASA scientists.
Brazil: controversy over Creative Commons
A controversy is raging over the decision by Ana de Holanda, the new Minister of Culture, to withdraw the Creative Commons licence from the ministry's website. The Brazilian journalist, Pedro Ayres, gives his views.
Latin America Embraces Palestine
Since December, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay and Peru have all recognised Palestine as an independent state. This is another indication of the growing independence from the USA of much of Latin America.